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President Donald Trump said he has appointed State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce as the next U.S. representative of the United Nations.
Bruce has been a State Department spokesman since Trump took office in January.
In an August 9 post on social media where Trump announced her appointment, the president said he had done a “great job” as a State Department spokesman. Bruce needs to be confirmed for Trump’s Republican-majority role by the Senate.
During the press conference, she defended the Trump administration’s foreign policy decisions, ranging from immigration crackdowns and visa revocations, including widely condemned armed aid operations on Palestinian territory, to the US response to the Russian war in Ukraine and Israel’s war in Gaza.
Bruce was previously a political contributor and commentator for Fox News for over 20 years.
She has also written books such as Fear itself: Revealing the Agenda that Kills the Left Heart,” which criticised liberals and left-leaning perspectives.
In a post after Trump’s announcement, Bruce thanked him, suggesting that the role was “a few weeks away.” Neither Trump nor Bruce mentions an accurate timeline in his online post.
“Now, I am congratulating you on my commitment to advancing America’s first leadership and values in the coming weeks to continue at this global stage of this new post,” Bruce wrote in X.
Trump chose former White House national security adviser Mike Waltz as his UN envoy. There is still a deadline for Waltz’s Senate confirmation for that role he becomes the Blues boss.
Waltz was Trump’s national security adviser until his exile on May 1 after being caught up in a March scandal involving signal chats among top Trump national security aides over Yemen’s military strikes. Trump then nominated Waltz as his UN ambassador.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh of Washington, edited by Andrea Ricci)
